Barnes and Noble has updated its popular, free NOOK for iOS application bringing optimization with sharper words and images on the new iPad's high-resolution Retina display. Also with the 3.1.3 update, customers will experience added flexibility for reading in either one or two columns in landscape orientation on the iPad, plus an easier-to-use highlight feature and several other enhancements for customers using devices with iOS 4.3 or newer. More info:

Through free NOOK software, customers can "Read What You Love, Anywhere You Like," by accessing Barnes and Noble's expansive NOOK Bookstore, with more than two million books, magazines, and newspapers from their NOOK Tablet, NOOK Color, NOOK Simple Touch and mobile and computing devices supporting free NOOK software. NOOK for iPad and iPhone brings Barnes & Noble's award-winning reading experience to iOS devices, so customers can enjoy access to a robust collection of NOOK Books, full color magazines, and newspapers anywhere they go. More information on NOOK for iOS v3.1.3 is available at www.bn.com/nookforipad or customers can download the new version from the Apple App Store.